Cars & Transportation

German Trains To Run on 100% Renewables

October 14, 2011

Image credit: Ingy The Wingy, used under Creative Commons license.

During our live chat with Solarcentury’s Jeremy Leggett yesterday, we started out by discussing the high profile solar railway bridge his company is helping install in central London …

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"Seat Savers" Are Best (and Grossest) Idea For Riding Public Transit

October 13, 2011

Photo with permission from Kelsey Avers

They go utterly against etiquette for riding muni, but these seat savers have something wonderfully tempting about them when you really just want some space on the bus. …Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Wireless Brakes for Bikes Developed by Computer Scientists

October 13, 2011

Would you trust wireless breaks when heading down this hill?? Photo by thenoizz via Flickr CC

Scientists at Saarland University have come up with a brake system for bikes that may take awhile to trust. The brakes work wirelessly. It sounds a little r…

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Walk to School Day in New York City (Video)

October 12, 2011

Getting Tomorrow’s Leaders Walking, Today
The International Walk to School Day aims to keep kids active and healthy, to improve air quality and the environment by reducing the number of car and bus trips, and to over time create more safe routes to w…

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2010 Tesla Plane Crash Investigation Still Ongoing

October 12, 2011

Image: Youtube screen capture

A Few More Answers, But Still Lots of Questions
Last year we reported that 3 Tesla Motors employees lost their lives in a plane crash over a residential neighborhood in Palo Alto, California. At the time of the tragedy, …

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Chevy Spark EV to Become GM’s First 100% Electric Car Since EV1 was Crushed

October 12, 2011

Photo: GM

Not a Plug-in Hybrid Like the Volt.. More Like the EV2
So far, GM hasn’t been all that enthusiastic about electric-only vehicles. They made the EV1, but it ended up in the junkyard. The Chevy Volt can run on electricity alone for about 35 m…

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The U.S. Now Uses More Corn for Fuel Than Feed!

October 11, 2011

Photo: Flickr, CC

Madness! And I don’t mean the British band…
The corn ethanol supporters are probably not very familiar with the concept of opportunity cost. Either that, or the subsidies and high corn prices are just to juicy to give up. Only abo…

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A Man & His Electric Car (Video)

October 10, 2011

Electric cars may be steadily going mainstream, but plenty of folks think ‘steadily’ isn’t fast enough. So one particularly effusive EV lover put together a video extolling the virtues of his Nissan LEAF. It’s hard to believe this isn’t actually a ca…

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Portland Cyclists Log A Million Bike Commute Miles (A Month)

October 10, 2011

Roll On, Oregon from Bicycle Transportation Alliance on Vimeo.

Twelve thousands cyclists in Portland – two thousand of them new cycling commuters – logged 1.3 million commuting miles in September’s cycling commute challenge sponsored by local advocacy…

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